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How To Extend Office 2010 Trial Period

Posted May 4, 2010 – 7:45 pm in: Microsoft Office
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We all know that the recently released Office 2010 packs-in plenty of features and improvements. Users who have downloaded the Office 2010 30-day trial version can easily extend the trial period to 180 days with a simple trick.

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Extending the trial version of Office 2010 requires you to run an Office command (OSPPREARM) located in your Windows drive. Running the command will extend the Office 2010 expiration date to 30 days. You can execute this command for a maximum of 5 times. So with this command you can use the Office 2010 for 180 days including the initial 30-day trial.

How to extend:

1. Open elevated command prompt. To do this, type CMD in Start menu search  box and hit Ctrl + Shift + Enter. Alternatively, go to Start menu, All Programs, Accessories, right-click on Command Prompt and select Run as administrator option.

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2. As we said earlier, you need to run OSPPREARM tool from command prompt. To run it, you need to enter the full path of OSPPREARM in the elevated Command Prompt. Generally, it is located in “C:\Program Files\Common Files\microsoft shared\OfficeSoftwareProtectionPlatform” folder (where “C” is your Windows drive letter).

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But if you have installed 32-bit Office in 64-bit Windows, it’s located in “Program Files (x86)”.

Now, type the full path (you can also copy and past the full path) of the OSPPREARM file in the elevated Command Prompt and hit enter.

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3. Once done, exit the Command Prompt.

4. You are done! Note that you can use this command for a maximum of five times and when you try the command for the sixth time you will see the following error.

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Thanks to MDL for this info.

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14 Comments

  1. CKC
    Posted August 30, 2010 at 7:20 pm | Permalink

    It’s really odd. My first month was coming up so I did this neat little trick last week.

    Now I come in to work today and am getting a message that my trial expires today. I try to run the command again and it behaves as if I’ve done it five times already. I’m really disappointed.

  2. AJ
    Posted October 18, 2010 at 8:24 pm | Permalink

    Couldn’t find the executable anywhere… oh well. Thanks for the info anyway.

  3. PV
    Posted November 8, 2010 at 6:07 pm | Permalink

    Worked perfectly. Thank you!

  4. tungmouse
    Posted December 6, 2010 at 12:49 pm | Permalink

    very goog

  5. Tyson Chen
    Posted December 17, 2010 at 10:26 pm | Permalink

    Nice one. Thanks

  6. Vignesh
    Posted January 4, 2011 at 10:26 pm | Permalink

    Excellent Worked for me !!!

  7. carol
    Posted January 21, 2011 at 1:53 am | Permalink

    I do not have OSPPREARM in there, it goes from osppobjs-spp-plugin-manifest-signed….to….OSPPSVC

    I have MSOFFICE 64bit so I am in the regular programs folder

    How come I do not have it????

  8. carol
    Posted January 21, 2011 at 3:23 am | Permalink

    Ok, I found it in the other folder. It was not there a minute ago tho…lol anyway, when I click on the OSPPREARM it just flashes on the screen for a second and then is gone.
    Is this supposed to happen? How can I get to copy and paste it with it just flashing momentarily across the screen?

    My MSOFFice 2010 expires in 4 days on the 24th.

  9. deps
    Posted March 24, 2011 at 5:22 am | Permalink

    Is this legal?

  10. admin
    Posted March 24, 2011 at 5:39 pm | Permalink

    Yes, legal.

  11. Ed
    Posted April 8, 2011 at 6:04 pm | Permalink

    It did the trick, thank you very much!

  12. Sean
    Posted October 18, 2011 at 9:24 pm | Permalink

    Hi, tried this last month and worked fine. retried again today and I’m getting the following message … C:\programfiles is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program or batch file … can anyone help please? Thanks

  13. L
    Posted October 25, 2011 at 2:46 pm | Permalink

    @Sean: You need to put the path name inside double quotation marks. “C:\Program Files….\OSPPREARM.EXE”

    Anyway, I successfully extended the trial once before, but can’t do it again now. Same error as the first person who commented – command behaves as if I’d already did this for 5 times.

  14. L
    Posted October 25, 2011 at 3:24 pm | Permalink

    Anyway, since I can’t get it to work and I need to use Word asap, I just changed my pc’s clock to an earlier date (within the 1-month trial period). Lame, but works lol.

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